Cold War federal funding played a major role in building early US computing and later breakthroughs including the Internet and AI.

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"Cold War federal funding played a major role in building early US computing and later breakthroughs including the Internet and AI."

Cold War money was not just background scenery - federal funding helped launch early digital computing and kept supporting breakthroughs such as the Internet and artificial intelligence.

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Source title Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research

Source authors National Research Council; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Committee on Innovations in Computing and Communications: Lessons from History

Source year 1999

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